Informatics in Undergraduate Medical Education: Analysis of Competency Frameworks and Practices Across North America.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the advent of competency-based medical education, as well as Canadian efforts to include clinical informatics within undergraduate medical education, competency frameworks in the United States have not emphasized the skills associated with clinical informatics pertinent to the broader practice of medicine.

Objective

By examining the competency frameworks with which undergraduate medical education in clinical informatics has been developed in Canada and the United States, we hypothesized that there is a gap: the lack of a unified competency set and frame for clinical informatics education across North America.

Methods

We performed directional competency mapping between Canadian and American graduate clinical informatics competencies and general graduate

SUBMITTER: Chartash D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9516378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature